totalmente como el uapití palmado difiere del dama. Y de hecho parece hallarse en la misma relación con el uapití palmado que el ciervo común con el gamo. Ha abundado en Virginia, ha sido visto, según mi conocimiento, en la vertiente oriental de la cordillera Azul desde el año 1765, es ahora común más allá de esas montañas, se nos ha traído a menudo y domesticado, y sus cuernos están en manos de muchos. Yo lo designaría como el < Alces Americanus cornibus teretibus >.
It were to be wilhed, that naturalifts, who are acquainted with the renne and elk of Europe, and who may hereafter vifit the northern parts of America, would examine well the animals called there by the names of grey and black raoofe, caribou, original and elk. Monf. de Buffon has done what could be done from the materials in his hands, toward clearing up the confufion introduced by the loofe application of thefe names among the animals they are meant to defignate. He reduces the whole to the renne and flat horned elk. From all the information I have been able to collefl, I ftrongly fufpe£t they will be found to cover three, if not four diftindl fpecies of animals. I have feen Ikins of a moofe, and of the caribou : they differ iBore from each other, and from that of the round horned elk, than I ever fawtwo (kins differ which belonged to different individuals of any wild fpecies. Thefe differences are in the colour, length, and coarfenefs of the hair, and in the fize, texture, and marks of the Ikin. Perhaps it will be found that there is, I. the moofe, black and grey, the former being faid to be the male, and the latter the female. 2. The caribou or renne. 3. The flat horned elk, or original. 4. The round horned elk. Should this laft, though poffeffmg so nearly the charafters of the elk, be found to be the same with the Cerf d'Ardennes or Brandhirtz of Germany, ftill there wi'A remain the three fpecies firft enumerated.
P [ i°6 ] por consiguiente por su nombre algonquino, Whabus, para distinguirla de estas. Kalm es de la misma opinión*.